A Dorf civilisation called The Fiery Page..... which got a whole lot funnier when I had an accidental wildfire go through the damn fort. Although it was probably caused by the usual !!sock!! -> !!beer!! -> !!kitten!! -> !!cheese!! -> !!trees!! cycle, I like to think that it started in a !!bookcase!! somewhere....
That's a thing? Oh dear... I need to make some ponds then. Will the dwarves try to extinguish themselves if they are on fire?
Fire critters down in your magma forge are capable of setting things on fire, so I always keep a cat pastured down there. The cat doesn't seem to mind or complain, the forge operators often like cats anyhow and are happy to see it, and it kills anything which might try to throw fire on the dwarves. I've had a lot less !!sock!!s since I started doing that.
I'm not sure if they will try to put themselves out, but I do find that having a tavern or at very least a well behind a wading pool (a dorfwash) can help, as !!dorfs!! tend to get thirsty. They wade through and their !!sock!!s become xXsockXxs, and then all is well, so long as there's a clean sock stockpile somewhere. Plus if I incorporate a misty waterfall, they get a happy thought which helps if they had an !!experience!!, or are just depressed that their socks are damaged. !!pet!!s (including !!kitten!!s) seem to invariably go to the surface when on fire (it might be my own bad luck talking there) and set the forest alight.
All in all, a pond is not enough, unless there's a reason for the !!dorf!! to want to go to the other side of it.
(edit: Grammar)